-The Hindu Attention needs to be paid to both cyclical and structural dimensions of India’s present economic slowdown India’s current economic slowdown is due to a combination of two underlying trends. First, there is the short-run cyclical slowdown exhibited by a number of high-frequency indicators, reflecting a significant fall in demand, especially for sectors such as automobiles, consumer durables and housing. Second, there is the more serious long-term fall in investment and savings...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Data: Is India facing population explosion as the Prime Minister claimed? -Varun B Krishnan
-The Hindu In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched upon the need to control 'population explosion' in India. However, the growth rate of the country's population has been falling since 1971. The Total Fertility Rate (the average number of children borne by a woman in her lifetime) has also been falling across most States. India's population growth rate peaked between 1961 and 1971 and has been falling since. The...
More »RTI reveals Kolhapur floods caused by tampering with technically established flood lines to please builders -Vinita Deshmukh
-MoneyLife.in The flood havoc in Kolhapur and Sangli districts has killed 54 people and thousands of cattle, besides causing colossal loss of property, farmlands and crops. Was it the ferocity of nature that caused such a great calamity or did human interference aggravate the situation? RTI documents reveal that tampering of the red and blue line demarcation of the Panchganga River in the Kolhapur Development Plan, due to the pressure of the...
More »Niti Aayog chief rings the alarm bell, calls for unprecedented steps
-The Indian Express While blaming a large part of the problem on the high credit growth between 2004 and 2011, when it grew 27 per cent and resulted in a build-up of NPAs, he said it takes a lot for the government which has inherited all the 'systems and inertia'. New Delhi: Taking cognizance of the bad liquidity situation in the financial sector and weak private investment in the economy, Rajiv...
More »All the major announcements made by Nirmala Sitharaman to boost economic growth
-The Hindu Nirmala Sitharaman said that India’s GDP continues to grow at a faster pace than the global economy and any other major economy. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures on August 23 to prop up the slowing economy. Addressing a press conference, Ms. Sitharaman sought to dispel doubts over the economy and the government’s growth agenda. Announcing that the global GDP growth may be revised downwards from the...
More »